"If you kill that Sea King in a one-on-one battle, Leodero won't be so shameless as to make a move against you."
"But you should also be clear that once the Storm Church produces its first Angel, its first Calamity, its first Pope, at that time, that Angel will come to settle accounts with you for today. I can help you block the Storm Church's future Angel, but then, Leodero will probably personally intervene."
"Calamity Queen" Gao Xinaim paused her movements of playing with the golden wine cup, looking at Xia Ai'er and speaking rationally.
She wasn't afraid of the Storm Church's future Calamity; even if both were Sequence Two, there was still a gap between an Angel and a subordinate god.
With Her help, Leodero would very likely make a move. The Elf Queen still had that much prestige.
Leodero disdained to even look at Xia Ai'er directly, but if He fought the Calamity Queen, and incidentally AOE'd the elves' settlements, He would absolutely not hold back.
"I know."
"But the speed at which the Storm Church produces its first Angel will definitely be after me."
"If the Storm Church's future Pope wants to settle accounts with me, then I'll go to the North Continent and play with them."
Xia Ai'er said calmly.
If it weren't for the Lord of Storms above his head, he would have been able to advance to an Angel long ago.
"You found the Calamity characteristic?"
Seeing Xia Ai'er's calm reaction, Gao Xinaim's attitude also became less serious.
"I found it, it came from a former subordinate god of the elves."
Xia Ai'er didn't hide it from Gao Xinaim; there was no need.
"The one the King didn't reclaim?"
Gao Xinaim obviously thought of something as well, and a hint of sadness appeared in her expression.
"You should know that characteristic was contaminated by something from the underground, right?"
"I can find a way to separate a Calamity characteristic."
Gao Xinaim knew the horror of the underground contamination. The elves had paid a heavy price to solve the underground problem once and for all back then.
"If you're talking about a characteristic below Sequence 2, then I believe it."
"But you are also only Sequence 2. Even if you are a subordinate god who has accommodated multiple, multi-Pathway Sequence 2 characteristics, you still can't do this."
"I know there are roughly only four ways to extract characteristics of the same Pathway."
"The first is the extraction of the Sun Pathway, the flesh separation of the Fallen Pathway."
"The second is to separate the characteristic through childbirth."
"The third is to steal it through the authority of Theft."
"The fourth is death."
"Regardless of the method, it must be at the Angel level of power."
"Coincidentally, none of us are involved in any of those."
Xia Ai'er didn't believe that Gao Xinaim knew more comprehensively than he, a transmigrator, did.
Each method of extracting characteristics corresponds to a Pillar.
Gao Xinaim might have consumed the White Tower, the Visionary Pathway's Sequence Two characteristic, but she definitely hadn't consumed the Sun Pathway and Hanged Man Pathway's Sequence Two characteristics.
Let alone the others.
"You should know that the elves have a natural... according to human terms, a Mother Pathway Grade 0 Sealed Artifact."
"This isn't a sacrifice for me."
"Even with my and Luck's protection, fewer and fewer elves are able to grow up, let alone grow to the Angel level. Although I don't want to admit it, the fact is, humanity's development speed is much faster than ours."
Gao Xinaim said with a cold snort.
"That's just because there are more of them."
Xia Ai'er shrugged.
"The suppression the elves face is becoming heavier and heavier."
"You are the most promising elf among the new generation. Your existence is an example and hope for many elves."
What Gao Xinaim said was quite sincere. Xia Ai'er was indeed an example for many elves. His existence, his growth, could inspire more elves not to lose that upward vitality.
Moreover, in Gao Xinaim's view, using that Sealed Artifact really wasn't a sacrifice.
"The difficulty of my advancement to an Angel shouldn't be that the commotion during advancement is too great, making it easy for the Lord of Storms to casually strike me down, should it?"
"The God of Luck can help you conceal your fate, at least enough to save your life."
Gao Xinaim was stunned for a moment. She hadn't expected that Xia Ai'er's long hesitation was actually about this problem?
God of Luck?
Is He reliable?
Xia Ai'er didn't distrust the God of Luck's character, but the God of Luck was only a Sequence 1.
"Let's wait a bit longer."
Xia Ai'er still planned to wait, first to find "Groselle's Travels." The Book World has a great effect.
The Mystical Item left by the Dragon of Imagination is, to some extent, more reliable than a Sequence 1 Great Angel.
This way, if the Lord of Storms truly disregards martial ethics and comes to wipe them out, Xia Ai'er can still take the elves and migrate.
"Then I won't trouble you with getting pregnant once."
"As long as there's no direct contact with the underground, the impact of secondary contamination isn't that severe. Otherwise, the God of the Sun wouldn't have fallen only recently."
"Appropriate contamination, on the contrary, is a form of protection, able to resist disgusting abilities such as mind-reading."
Xia Ai'er's attitude was very carefree.
None of the Sequence 0s of the Five Families were contaminated to death, so why would it be the turn of the little shrimps below?
"Mind-reading is just a very basic Beyonder ability. You can also mind-read, can't you?"
"Since you're unwilling to accept my goodwill, then what should I call you?"
Seeing that Xia Ai'er didn't seem to want to accept her and the God of Luck's help, and also didn't carefully conceal her secrets, Gao Xinaim simply stopped pretending, and her eyes gradually became sharper.
"My surname is Xia, you can call me Xia Ran, or Xia Buran. Currently, I'm Xia Ai'er, a native of the West Continent, from an era even older than the Dark Epoch, similar to the era of that Bible-copying God of the Sun. For some reason, I awakened my past memories during that divine war, and now I just want to live well and incidentally take care of my elven companions who share the same origin."
"Now, are you satisfied? Queen? Or Empress?"
"Xia Ran" raised his head, his smile bright as he met Gao Xinaim's gaze. He seemed very skilled at introducing himself, without any discomfort.
Was there anything about his identity that couldn't be revealed?
He was a transmigrator.
He transmigrated from ancient times, guaranteed authentic.
"You and the God of the Sun are from the same era?"
Gao Xinaim was slightly stunned. This was a bit beyond her expectation. She knew that this young elf definitely had secrets, and he didn't worship her as much as other elves did, but she only thought this was a challenge from the new generation to authority. She didn't expect Xia Ai'er to directly drop such a big bomb.
"It's incredible, right?"
"He was a dual-Pathway True God from birth, and I'm not even an Angel yet. It would be a lie to say I'm not envious."
"You don't need to inquire about our era. In our era, Beyonders hadn't even appeared yet."
Xia Ai'er didn't plan to keep pretending. Wasn't being an Outer Deity remnant a positive buff? Why hide it?